1980. Curtis, George. The Stratigraphy and Structure of Portions of the Bonanza King, and Schell Mountain Quadrangle, Trinity County, California. 132 p.

1980. Fedewa, William. Stratigraphy and Phosphate Resources of the Murdock Mountain Area, Elko County, Nevada. 98 p.

1980. Hedel, Charles. Late Quaternary Faulting in Western Surprise Valley, Modoc County, California. 142 p.

1980. Moore, David. An Evaluation of the Use of Primary Sedimentary Fabrics for the Determination of Strain in Metaconglomerates. 115 p.

1980. Wilbur, Curtis. The Nature and Origin of Quaternary Basaltic Volcanism in the Central Mojave Desert Area, California. 133 p.

1981. Hovland, David. Geology of the Northwest Part of the Lower Valley Quadrangle Caribou county, Idaho. 108 p.

1981. Martindale, Steven. Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of the Southern Part of the Leach Range, Elko County, Nevada. 117 p.

1981. Moore, Steven. Geology of a Part of the Southern Monte Cristo Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada. 157 p.

1981. Ostendorf, Paul. Geology of the Highland Lakes Area Alpine County, California. 89 p.

1981. Ponce, David. Gravity Investigations at the Proposed Wahmonie Nuclear Waste Storage Site, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. 76 p.

1981. Vanderhurst, William. The Santa Clara Formation and Orogenesis of Monte Bello Ridge, Northwest Santa Clara County, California. 114 p.

1981. Winsor, Henry. The Paleogeography and Paleoenvironments of the Middle Pennsylvanian Part of the Wood River Formation in South-Central Idaho. 81 p.

1981. Witham, Roger. Geology & Sope Movement Hazards of the Livermore Ranch area, Lake & Napa countries, California. 184 p.

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1982. Braun, Don. The stratigraphy of the Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation in the Western Washakie Basin, southwestern Wyoming. 124 p.

1982. Egbert, Robert. Sedimentology and petrography of the Middle and Upper Jurassic rocks in the Tuxedni Bay Area, Cook Inlet Alaska. 128 p.

1982. Hardin, Jack. A comparative study of porosity estimations derived from geophysical and petrographic analyses. 91 p.

1982. Johannesen, Dann. The geology and petrography of the Alum Creek Area, Mineral County, Nevada. 92 p.

1982. McCoy, Gail. Analysis of fractures and speleogenesis at Lilburn Cave, Tulare County, California. 83 p.

1982. McCusker, Robert. Geology of the Soledad Mountain volcanic complex, Mojave Desert, California. 113 p.

1982. Roberts, Eve. Geology of the southern part of the Wayan West Quadrangle, Caribou County, Idaho. 117 p.

1982. Sklenar, Scott. Genesis of an Eocene Lake System within the Washakie Basin of Southwestern Wyoming. 89 p.

1982. Teas, Nancy Greene. Observations of currents off Manzanillo, Mexico, estimated using potential vorticity and density. 40 p.

1982. Villalobos, Hector. Engineering geology reconnaissance of five damsites and reservoir study areas, Similkameen River, Okanogan County, Washington. 136 p.

1982. Wolfe, Mitchell. The Relationship between forest management and landsliding in the Klamath Mountains of Northwestern California. 73 p.

1983. Anderson, Peter. Geology of the Quien Sabe Valley 7 1/2 Minute quadrangle San Benito County, California. 89 p.

1983. Clynne, Michael. Stratigraphy and Major Element Geochemistry of the Lassen Volcanic Center, California. 168 p.

1983. Coyle, John. Bedrock and surficial geology of the San Jose - Milpitas foothills area, Santa Clara County, California. 234 p.

1983. Diggles, Michael. Geologic and Mineral-resource Evaluation of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. 120 p.

1983. Doukas, Michael. Volcanic Geology of Big Chico Creek Area, Butte County, California. 157 p.

1983. Drinkwater, James. Geology of the Northeastern Part of the Quien Sabe Volcanics Merced County, California. 102 p.

1983. Golia, Ralph. Depositional environments and paleogeography of the Upper Miocene Wassuk Group, Lyon and Mineral Counties, West-central Nevada. 105 p.

1983. Guffanti, Mariane. Temperature gradients in the conterminous United States. 139 p.

1983. Howe, Robert. Geology of the Mokelumne Peak area. 113 p.

1983. Humphreys, Richard. The characterization of the sulfide component in layered igneous and metasedimentary rocks in the Mouat Block of the Stillwater Complex. 135 p.

1983. Kaplan, Terry. The Lassic Outlier: an Outlier of Coast Range Ophiolite. 96 p.

1983. Lico, Michael. Lower Permian submarine sediment gravity flows in the Owens Valley Formation, southeastern California. 80 p.

1983. Magginetti, Robert. Fusulinid biostratigraphy of the Darwin Canyon and Conglomerate Mesa Areas, Inyo County, California. 416 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1983/84 - First Place*

1983. Nagel, David. Evolution of the Ascension Submarine Canyon: Central California continental margin. 88 p.

1983. Oberlindacher, Hans. Geology of the southern part of the Wooley Range Caribou County, Idaho. 110 p.

1983. Orlando, Robert. Sedimentology and bedform Morphology in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. 75 p.

1983. Orris, Greta. A quantitative investigation of landslides in a portion of the Santa Clara formation, Santa Clara County, California (1979). 80 p.

1983. Schwartz, David. Geologic history of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey County, California. 102 p.

1983. Springer, James. Structural analysis of the Southeastern Livermore Basin, California. 178 p.

1983. Trimble, Deborah. The application of uranium-thorium systematics to rocks from the Lassen Dome field. 94 p.

1983. Williams, Kathleen. The Mount Diablo Ophiolite, Contra Costa County, California. 156 p.

1983. Williams, Ronald. Turbidity and Sedimentation: Tanajib/Manifa coastal waters Northwestern Arabian Gulf. 136 p.

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1984. Flora, Larry. Origin and distribution of sediment in the Pennsylvanian- Permian Keeler Canyon formation, Inyo County, California. 151 p.

1984. Fraticelli, Luis. Geology of portions of the Project City and Bella Vista quadrangles, Shasta County, California. 110 p.

1984. Garlow, Richard. The stratigraphy, petrology and paleogeographic setting of the middle Pennsylvanian Tihvipah limestone of southeastern California. 134 p.

1984. Harding, Michael. A geophysical investigation of a portion of Santa Theresa County Park, Santa Clara County, California. 70 p.

1984. Klise, David. Modern sedimentation on the California continental margin adjacent to the Russian River. 120 p.

1984. Torresan, Michael. Fabric and its relation to sedimentological and geotechnical properties of near-surface sediment in Shelikof Strait, Alaska. 220 p.

1984. Van Buren, Harold. Seismic stratigraphy of a modern carbonate slope: Northern Little Bahama Bank. 115 p.

1984. Vercoutere, Thomas. Sedimentation across the oxygen minimum zone on the continental slope offshore central California. 129 p.

1984. Ward, William. The America Mine landslide Almaden Quicksilver Park, Santa Clara County, California. 94 p.

1985. Borum, Jeffrey. Mass-wasting, geomorphology, and geology headwaters of the south fork of the Trinity river in northern California. 119 p.

1985. Chinburg, Susan. Sediment dynamics in Monterey Canyon, central California. 89 p.

1985. Christie, Kyle. The geology of the Sunol regional wilderness. 112 p.

1985. Eberz, Noel. Geology of the Badger Flat limestone (Middle Ordovician) southeastern California. 91 p.

1985. Gartner, Anne. Geometry and emplacement history of a basaltic intrusive complex, San Rafael Swell and Capitol Reef areas, Utah. 149 p.

1985. Helm, Ronnie. Depositional history and petrology of the Fort Union formation (Paleocene) southern flank of the Rock Springs uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. 145 p.

1985. Luken, Michael. Petrography and origin of limestones in the WPZ and TR belt, Klamath mountains, California. 130 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1985/86 - Second Place*

1985. Nelson, James. Geotechnical and geologic properties of the Santa Clara formation claystone, Saratoga foothills, Santa Clara County, California. 120 p.

1985. Rasch, Richard. Phosphorites along the central California continental margin. 101 p.

1985. Rycerski, Barbara. Wolfcampian Colonial Rugose Corals From the Stikine Terrane, North-Central British Columbia. 138 p.

1985. Tomson, Janice. Early-Middle Pleitocene Paleoceanography of the southwest Atlantic sector of the southern ocean. 44 p.

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1986. Hoose, Seena. Was There a Great Pleistocene Lake San Benito? 87 p.

1986. Kempema, Edward. Flume studies and field observations of the interaction of frazil ice and anchor ice with sand-sized sediment. 86 p.

1986. Klaus, Adam. Deep-sea sedimentary processes in the Argentine Basin revealed by 3.5 kHz Echograms. 51 p.

1986. Lawson, William. Geology and Structure of the Covington Mill 7.5-min quadrangle, Trinity County, California. 96 p.

1986. Liniecki, Margaret. Late Miocene Paleoenvironments of the Lowere Mulholland Formation, West-Central California. 88 p.

1986. Nedell, Susan. Sedimentary Geology of the Valles Marineris, Mars and Antarctic Dry Valley Lakes. 150 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1984/85 - First Place*

1986. Parson, David. Geology and Geologic Hazards of Sugarloaf Ridge Park, Sonoma Co., California. 89 p.

1986. Powell II, Charles. Stratigraphy and Bivalve Molluscan Paleontology of the Neogene Imperial Formation in Riverside County, California. 324 p.

1986. Rearic, Douglas. Temporal and Spatial Character of Newly-formed Ice Gouges in Eastern Harrison Bay, Alaska, 1977-1978. 80 p.

1986. Young, Douglas. Hydrogeology of the northern portion of the west firing area Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300. 270 p.

1987. Bader, Jeffrey. Surface and Subsurface Structural Relations of the Cherokee Ridge Arch, South-central Wyoming. 68 p.

1987. Bottaro, Joseph. Geology of the Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex Mojave District, Kern County, California. 94 p.

1987. DiLeonardo, Christopher. Structural Evolution of the Smith Canyon Fault, Northeastern Cascades, Washington. 85 p.

1987. Glick, Linda. Structural Geology of the Northern Toano Range, Elko County, Nevada. 141 p.

1987. Heath, Kathryn. Distribution and Sedimentology of Periplatform Sediment on a Modern Open-Ocean Carbonate Slope: Northern Little Bahama Bank. 82 p.

1987. Hopkins, Willard. Geology of the Newby Group and Adjacent Units in the Southern Methow Trough, Washington. 85 p.

1987. Klingman, Darrell. Depositional Environments and Paleogeographic setting of the Middle Mississippian Section in Eastern California. 231 p.
*OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY THESIS AWARD 1987/1988 - First Place*

1987. Leitner, Kam. Development of a Computerized Geologic Structural Modeling System. 196 p.

1987. Perkins, James. Provenance of the Upper Miocene and pliocene Etchegoin Formation: Implications for Paleogeography of the Late Miocene of Central California. 121 p.

1987. Powell, John. Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Fort Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation, Monterey County, California. 75 p.

1987. Stotz, Tina. Permeability of Peat to Selected Toxic Leachates. 138 p.

1987. Treat, Cheryl. Metamorphic and Structural History of Hicks Butte Inlier-Washington Cascades. 93 p.

1987. Woodward, Philip. Regional Evaluation of Formation Fluid Salinity by Spontaneous Potential Log, Ivishak Sandstone, (Triassic), North Slope, Alaska. 71 p.

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1988. Belasky, Paul. Stratigraphy and Paleographic Setting of the Mississippian Monte Cristo Group in the Spring Moutains, Nevada. 152 p.

1988. Bork, Kenneth. Post Miocene History of Antarctic Bottom Water Paleospeed and Polar Front Zone Migrations in the Argentine Basin. 96 p.

1988. Connelly, Steven. The Strawberry Creek and Pyramid Guard Station landslides. 105 p.

1988. Deschenes, Michael. A Magnetic & Pseudogravity Invest of the Cobar Area, New South Wales, Australia. 49 p.

1988. Falls, James. The Development of a Liquefaction Hazard Map for the City of San Jose, CAlifornia. 188 p.
*COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: Best Student Researcher 1988/89 - First Place*

1988. Grasty, James. A Gravity and Magnetic Study, Armstrong Ranch Area, Monterey County, CA. 87 p.

1988. Hogan, Patrick. Modeling of Freshwater-seawater Interaction on Enjebi Island, Enewetak Atoll. 141 p.

1988. Hughes, William. Recent Sediment Accumulation Rates on the Monterey Fan, Central California. 63 p.

1988. Maslonkowski, Dennis. Hydrogeology of the Bay Plain Groundwater Basin, Alameda County. 143 p.

1988. McLaughlin, Philip. Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments, Imperial County, CA. 103 p.

1988. Phillips, Steven. Calibration of a Texture-Based Simulation of the Ground-Water Flow System in the Western San Joaquin Valley, California. 141 p.

1988. Raviola, Frank. Metamorphism, Plutonism and Deformation, Pateros-Alta Lake region, north-central Washington. 182 p.
*OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY THESIS AWARD 1988/1989 - Second Place*

1988. Turnau, Rene. Deep Circulation Changes in the South Atlantic Ocean: Response to Initiation of Northern Hemispheric Glaciation. 66 p.

1988. Vander Meulen, Dean. Intracaldera Tuffs and Central Vent Intrusion of the Mahogany Mountain Cladera, Eastern Oregon. 88 p.

1988. Wade, Michael. Geology of the Northern part of the Cooper Mountain Batholith, North Cascades, Washington. 88 p.

1988. Wray, Michael. Sedimentation and Tectonics of the Main Body of the Wasatch Formation in the Red Creek Basin, Sweetwater County, Southwestern Wyoming. 104 p.

1989. Babcock, Sarah. Side Slope Sedimentation Following New Work Dredging on the Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington. 129 p.

1989. Cummings, Carrie. Computer Modeling of Slug and Bail Tests. 161 p.

1989. Horringa, Eric. Rocks and Structural Evolution of the Northern Kilbeck Hills, San Bernardino County, California. 180 p.

1989. Landgraf, Richard. Modeling the Movement of a Wetting Front in the Vadose Zone Beneath the Drainage Retention Basin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site. 199 p.

1989. Valentino, Michael. Groundwater Nutrient and Freshwater Contribution to Tomales Bay, California. 128 p.

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